Tag: new user experience

  • How Do You Educate People New to WordPress?

    How Do You Educate People New to WordPress?

    When a friend of mine asked for suggestions on what he should use to create a new site, I suggested WordPress. It is well supported, has an amazing community, and a ton of free themes and plugins to choose from. After getting WordPress installed on a new webhosting account, I left him be to see…

  • Initiative Aims to Improve the New User Experience in WordPress 4.2

    Initiative Aims to Improve the New User Experience in WordPress 4.2

    Drew Jaynes, who is leading the release cycle for WordPress 4.2 announced on the Make.WordPress.core blog, that a new community initiative has been launched called NUX or New User Experience. The group is made up of more than 15 members of the WordPress community who have experience in onboarding clients, training clients, and work with…

  • A New User’s Experience Installing and Using bbPress

    A New User’s Experience Installing and Using bbPress

    bbPress is a 10 year old project that’s supposed to make it easy to attach a forum to WordPress. On the day after Christmas in 2004, Matt Mullenweg spent an entire weekend coding an alternative to miniBB, from the ground up that at the time, powered the WordPress support forums. bbPress was stand-alone software until…